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Mary Mapes Hits Bloggers and MSM in Upcoming Book--But What's With the Kurtz Excerpts? (Book Gone)
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| October, 7, 2005
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Posted on 10/07/2005 12:03:12 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
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To: Siena Dreaming
"I gulped and tried to breathe."
What is about dum dums and gulping for air?
First Blewinsky, then Shrillary,
now there's something about Mary.
De-horned and now owned by FR.
For Sale, one liberal journalist.
Enquire within. No gulping.
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posted on
10/07/2005 12:24:20 PM PDT
by
tumblindice
(Forrest Gulp: "Run Forrest, run.")
To: dinasour
They must have used one of the new faxes that's able to update USAF standard blocking from the 1970s to the blocking used in the 1990s.
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posted on
10/07/2005 12:31:36 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(We were promised someone in the Scalia/Thomas mold. Maybe next time.)
To: PJ-Comix
Hasn't she ever heard the expression to the effect that "It's better to keep silent and let people suspect you are an idiot than to open your mouth and confirm it"? (Yeah, I paraphrased it)
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posted on
10/07/2005 12:42:30 PM PDT
by
contemplator
(Capitalism gets no Rock Concerts)
To: PJ-Comix
Kurtz' column is
here. It's mainly about how headlines in the Rove grand jury story have been slanted. The Mapes stuff is near the end. One excerpt:
What about the suspect memos by that long-dead Guard official? "Faxing changes a document in so many ways, large and small, that analyzing a memo that had been faxed -- -in some cases not once, but twice -- -was virtually impossible. The faxing destroyed the subtle arcs and lines in the letters. The characters bled into each other. The details of how the typed characters failed to line up perfectly inside each word were lost."
The problem is that three of CBS's own document experts later said they could not have authenticated those memos, and two had warned the network about that.
Mapes on her critics: "To these people, there was no such thing as unbiased mainstream reporting, certainly not when it came to criticism of the president, no matter how tepid. To them, there was Fox News and everything else -- and everything else was liberal and unfair."
Mapes on the MSM: "I was incredulous that the mainstream press -- -a group I'd been a part of for nearly twenty-five years and thought I knew -- -was falling for the blogs' critiques. I was shocked at the ferocity of the attack. I was terrified at CBS's lack of preparedness in defending us. I was furious at the unrelenting attacks on Dan. And I was helpless to do anything about any of it."
Problem: Lots of MSM outlets, including The Post, did their own reporting and concluded the memos were highly suspect at best.
To: PJ-Comix
Mary Mapes...the queen of sour grapes.
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posted on
10/07/2005 12:46:16 PM PDT
by
RasterMaster
(Proud Member of the Water Bucket Brigade - MOOSEMUSS!)
To: PJ-Comix
You just KNOW she lurks here, probably swearing under her breath, eyes wide, fingers typing erratically, as she mutters "I'll get you, you buckheaded bastards, I'll get you yet..."
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posted on
10/07/2005 12:46:36 PM PDT
by
Paradox
(CDC in Atlanta is reporting an outbreak of HPD (Histrionic Personality Disorder) at FreeRepublic.com)
To: Southack
You're right.
making crap up = pulitzer
getting caught = radioactive
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posted on
10/07/2005 12:48:24 PM PDT
by
SquirrelKing
(I'm not mean, you're just a sissy.)
To: Jim_Curtis
It's a typo -- should be "crazed".
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posted on
10/07/2005 12:58:50 PM PDT
by
expatpat
To: SquirrelKing
Now, if Fitzgerald just nails Joe Wilson, the election will be over.
To: expatpat
It's a typo -- should be "crazed".
Crazed: "A network of cracks"...yup, that must be it.
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posted on
10/07/2005 1:16:19 PM PDT
by
Jim_Curtis
(How do we prevent someone from torching his city if he will be rewarded as a lottery winner?)
To: PJ-Comix
"I was incredulous that the mainstream press -- a group I'd been a part of for nearly twenty-five years and thought I knew -- was falling for the blogs' critiques. I was shocked at the ferocity of the attack. I was terrified at CBS's lack of preparedness in defending us. I was furious at the unrelenting attacks on Dan. And I was helpless to do anything about any of it." Oh please! You had the entire CBS news apparatus behind you and Dan. All you needed were some reasonable explanations -- which of course you didn't have.
The truth is you weren't attacked at all. Some of the MSM reported a tiny fraction of the other side and it seemed like an all out attack. Dan Rather needed to grow some but he couldn't and didn't.
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posted on
10/07/2005 1:25:24 PM PDT
by
laredo44
(Liberty is not the problem)
To: All
Mary Mapes
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posted on
10/07/2005 1:28:54 PM PDT
by
Old Seadog
(Birthdays start out being fun. But too many of them will kill you..)
To: PJ-Comix
Among the excerpts quoted by Kurtz: -- ...on the Internet, it appeared everything was falling apart. I had a real physical reaction ..... It was something between a panic attack, a heart attack, and a nervous breakdown. My palms were sweaty; I gulped and tried to breathe. . . . The little girl in me wanted to crouch and hide behind the door and cry my eyes out."
--"Faxing changes a document in so many ways, large and small, that analyzing a memo that had been faxed -- -in some cases not once, but twice -- -was virtually impossible. The faxing destroyed the subtle arcs and lines in the letters. The characters bled into each other. The details of how the typed characters failed to line up perfectly inside each word were lost."
--"To these people, there was no such thing as unbiased mainstream reporting,...."
..good job Mapes
...."analyzing a memo that had been faxed....was virtually impossible."
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posted on
10/07/2005 1:31:06 PM PDT
by
Donald Rumsfeld Fan
("Memos on Bush Are Fake but Accurate". NYTimes)
To: PJ-Comix
"I gulped and tried to breathe." Sounds like a similar reaction to what Hillary said she had when she learned Bubba had done the nasty with Monica.
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posted on
10/07/2005 1:33:32 PM PDT
by
alnick
To: PJ-Comix
"To them, there was Fox News and everything else -- and everything else was liberal and unfair."
I admit I am one of "them".
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posted on
10/07/2005 1:34:32 PM PDT
by
Republican Red
(''Van der Sloot" is Dutch for ''Kennedy.")
To: smith288
Mapes is so weak on the "details" that she has even misspelled "Pajamahadeen"...
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posted on
10/07/2005 1:34:44 PM PDT
by
pfony1
To: dinasour
"You mean faxing a document doesn't change the font from Fixed Courier to Proportional Times New Roman with the same word wrap as MS Word and the the fake kerning used by TrueType"
The utter arrogance of this woman to assume that just because she knows nothing of typesetting, fonts, or air force protocols from the 1970s that the rest of the country shares her ignorance is bewildering to me.
Hey Mary, wake up. You were wrong. The documents weren't from the 1970s the technology that produced them wasn't available in the 1970s. Your forger ignored Air Force protocol when he wrote the memo. The General that was referenced in the memo had already retired like a year before the memo was written. What don't you get about why people suspect it of being false? It was not a right wing conspiracy. I know, I'm in charge of the right wing conspiracies.
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posted on
10/07/2005 1:36:09 PM PDT
by
adgirl
To: Donald Rumsfeld Fan
The previous post was one of the forged docs overlayed by a Microsoft Word doc in the default mode.
Courtesy of "Little Green Footballs".
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posted on
10/07/2005 1:39:06 PM PDT
by
Donald Rumsfeld Fan
("Memos on Bush Are Fake but Accurate". NYTimes)
To: tumblindice
"What is about dum dums and gulping for air? {"
Grnetics, or more likely, the same (ghost)speechwriter.
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posted on
10/07/2005 1:47:05 PM PDT
by
RedMonqey
(Life is hard. It's even harder when you're stupid.)
To: Old Seadog
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posted on
10/07/2005 1:50:14 PM PDT
by
Crawdad
(So the guy says to the doctor, "It hurts when I do this.")
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